Interim Senior Vice President GRC Programme Portfolio — Release Evidence Recovery

The mandate

A banking GRC programme needs executive control of its release evidence: reported release status and the underlying acceptance tests do not yet reconcile. Three active streams have uncertain baselines and different accounts of who authorised exceptions. The interim senior vice president GRC programme portfolio will assume executive programme control on 26 October 2026 for six months, while a permanent SVP is recruited. The task is to recover dependable delivery evidence and decision ownership, not to rewrite risk policy or assess individual conduct.

Handover requires an agreed release baseline, a reconciled outstanding-test register and two complete readiness reviews in which independent owners can reproduce the evidence. The permanent SVP must receive an honest portfolio forecast, authorised exception decisions and a clear distinction between completed work and unresolved acceptance. Where a release remains deferred, the handover must explain the condition for proceeding. This fixed engagement ends after successor induction within six months; restoring confidence does not require declaring every stream successful or forcing a deployment merely to demonstrate recovery.

You may reset programme plans, reassign delivery and test leadership, and stop streams advancing through unsupported internal readiness gates. The recovery steering committee approves material funding or scope changes, while established production authorities retain release permission. Business risk owners accept functional outcomes and residual exposure. The interim cannot retrospectively approve another executive's decision, suppress contradictory test evidence or convert a risk-owner disagreement into a project-manager sign-off. Decisions must be recorded at the authority that actually holds them, even where that produces a less favourable recovery timetable.

Seventy-eight colleagues form the programme perimeter, with engineering and risk-owner support retained. Investigation of individual conduct, replacement of the core GRC platform and enterprise risk-methodology redesign are excluded. Mumbai requires onsite executive presence during the first recovery reviews, followed by planned delivery-team sessions. Temporary specialists may be used within an approved budget and defined expiry. The successor should inherit functioning managers who can maintain the evidence standard, rather than a second reporting layer that depends on the interim personally verifying every test or translating each team's version of progress.

What you will own

• Establish the factual release baseline from approved scope, test evidence and decision records, retaining contradictions explicitly until the relevant owner confirms which work and exceptions are genuinely authorised.
• Decide recovery priorities using unresolved acceptance, critical dependencies and evidence reliability, redirecting programme effort toward material readiness gaps rather than producing another visually reassuring status presentation.
• Assign programme and test ownership with independent review routes, preventing the person reporting delivery completion from becoming the sole authority for accepting the evidence that supports that conclusion.
• Set readiness gates that require linked requirements, reproducible tests and authorised exception decisions, suspending internal progression when the portfolio cannot demonstrate those conditions through its own records.
• Lead two complete recovery reviews with business and production authorities, testing whether managers can explain the evidence and residual issues without the interim correcting or narrating their submissions.
• Present revised scope and timing options to the steering committee with resource and control consequences, reserving material risk acceptance and production permission for their established professional and executive owners.
• Transfer the recovery book and live review calendar to the permanent SVP, including unresolved tests, decision provenance and manager capability so the next portfolio review can run without parallel interim oversight.

Candidate qualifications

• Demonstrate programme leadership where reported progress and acceptance evidence diverged. Describe how you reconstructed the baseline, preserved conflicting records and obtained decisions from the actual authorities rather than resolving uncertainty through a more optimistic plan. A comparable GRC, banking technology or control-sensitive delivery recovery is strong evidence when you personally held programme responsibility for the corrected operating standard.
• Bring 22–28 years in financial-services technology or GRC delivery with VP or substantial portfolio accountability. MetricStream functional delivery knowledge should enable informed challenge of requirements and tests; relevant functional certification or equivalent applied depth is expected. Show the managers and specialists you led, your delegated decisions and how you kept risk-policy ownership separate from technology programme control.
• Evidence test traceability and release governance that survived delivery pressure. Explain a material exception you refused to treat as complete, the reviewer who could legitimately decide it and how you maintained a usable forecast while uncertainty remained. The role needs precise judgement about readiness, not an instinct to stop all work indiscriminately or an assumption that a programme sponsor's urgency supplies missing acceptance evidence.
• Be available for onsite executive cover from 26 October 2026 and five days weekly throughout the six-month term. Provide a leadership-transfer example with a defensible residual register and managers capable of sustaining the corrected review. You must be comfortable preserving an unresolved stream in the handover when the evidence does not justify release, while giving the successor a practical route to the next authorised decision.

Application

Applications for this mandate are received in one way only: through the India Board Terminal's application process. It is automated end to end. Your Executive Passport travels to the mandate holder in its confidential form, your answers to the three questions below are read before anything else in your file, and every stage that follows is recorded on your applications page.

There is no address to write to and no intermediary to call. The mandate holder reads what the Terminal delivers and nothing else, which is what keeps the process the same for every applicant and keeps your name out of it until you release it. Applications close on 14 October 2026. Mandate reference CVU-INT-2026-IND-135.